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How I think Twitter can solve it's problems!

If you're an avid twitterer (or twit for short), you'll be very familiar with it's downtime issues. Well as I see it, there are 3 major problems Twitter has. Downtime, Spammers, and a lack of viable income. So how do I think it can solve it's problems? Simple, charge anyone with a follow...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 07-10-2008
RegEx tools for Visual Studio & the Social Web

You might want to skip this first paragraph if you are just looking for the RegEx Tools portion. I still find it amazing how the web can create an online social inner-networking that bobs and weaves an amazing web of connections (confused? me too). Here's what led me to find these wonderful RegEx...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 06-19-2008
Microsoft Certification Exam Voucher Giveaway

I've recently come into several Certification Exam Vouchers and have decided to host a giveaway. Just post a comment to the blog, and I'll randomly select a winner. All entries must be in by June 30th, 2008. You can also post a comment to my cross posting site on GeeksWithBlogs to gain an additional...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 06-17-2008
Congratulations & Thanks to Jay Smith & Michael Paladino

A big heartfelt thank you and congratulations to two of the developer community builders in the Northwest Arkansas area, Jay Smith and Michael Paladino with special mention to Zach Young. As a Microsoft MVP, one of our benefits this year, is the ability to award people with a special prize. This prize...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 06-09-2008
Go visit the Visual Basic Product Team at TechEd!

It was this time last year at TechEd that Cory Smith introduced me to the Visual Basic product team. He first introduced me to Ed Hickey, who is the VB MVP Lead at Microsoft. The funny story about Ed is, less than a week after Ed awarded me the MVP status, he transfers out. I knew I was hard to work...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 06-05-2008
Writing to .Net Config Files

I've been working with config files for quite some time. I was recently reminded that I needed to finish my original article and share my final findings on my personal best practices for working with config files. One of the coolest and most useful features in config files is the file attribute as...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 06-05-2008
Northwest Arkansas SQL Server User Group 1st Meeting

I have vastly been neglecting my blogging. So as not to be outdone by Chris Koenig .... I was able to meetup with the organizers of the event, Jason Pluenneke, Curt Wolfe, Boyd Evert, & Dennis Berk several weeks ago. I am personally very excited about this new user group starting up. Partly because...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 05-09-2008
Preferred method for read only Config files

I had come across an article where you can use the following line to read custom section settings from your config file (where SectionName is the name of your section) in .Net. NameValueCollection myData = (NameValueCollection)System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.GetSection(SectionName); The advantage...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 03-26-2008
Free DevExpress .net controls

I ran across an ad today that linked me to where DevExpress is giving away over 40 controls for free. I'm a big fan of two of their products (which unfortunately aren't free), CodeRush and their Excel like grid control. Their grid control is a huge hit amongst the Excel heavy business users I...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 03-06-2008
First Fort Smith .Net User Group Meeting

Last night was the first meeting for the Fort Smith .Net User Group. It was a great turnout of 38 people and featured Raymond Lewellan talking about Behavior Driven Development. You can read more about the event from the following blogs: Michael Paladino David Mohundro Technorati Tags: Fort Smith , ...

Posted to Randy Walker Blog (Weblog) by Randy Walker on 03-04-2008

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